Saturday, April 16, 2016

Wynonna Earp, Season 1, Episode 3: Leavin' on Your Mind

Time for more snark and the odd demon kill!

But first let’s look at John Henry, Doc Holiday, who
continues to look for a mysterious woman using Waverley’s research and not
getting too far. She probably has the answer he’s looking for but he then
decides to be all scary to drive her off since she’s in the habit of following
him to the revenant Trailer Park having discovered who Doc Holiday is.

Which leaves Doc with one option – BoBo (head of the Revenants) for the answer
about who this Stone Witch is. And in exchange he wants him to get close to
Wynonna

Whoever she is, she’s using her spells for three
Revenants looking to get out of town (as Waverley happily explains to Dolls now
she’s doing research for the team – Revenants are trapped in town) which
involves three of the nasty demons ripping off hands, stealing local history
and trying to get something out of an old bank which involves taking hostages.
Including Champ (Waverley’s boyfriend, much to Office Haut’s disgust) and
Shorty (old wise father figure to Wynonna, don’t learn too much about him, he’s
here to die so Wynonna can be sad).

Wynonna gets in the middle of it, unarmed, in a desperate
attempt to save people. And kill the Revenants especially since the super-fast Marty
is one of the ones who killed her dad. Revenants aren’t the most trust worthy
of people though and they end up killing each other leaving only one. He looks
like the most reasonable of the Revenants but reminds us he plans to kill and
maim lots of people for funsies, as they do.

He does complete the spell – and he’s right, the Stone
Witch does have power; letting him possess a human. Shorty (remember death for
angsty?), which will let him leave town. Wynonna runs in to fight and is nearly
killed before Dolls intervenes. She then has to shoot Shorty, MAXIMUM angst.

But there’s a darker side – Wynonna thinks Dolls could
have intervened sooner and he agrees – but he chose not to to see if the spell
would work. Which, of course, means he sacrificed Shorty

Wynonna is not amused and not happy. This is going to be
a significant philosophical differences between them and is going to be pretty
stressful between them- and go a long way to spread some darkness among all the
snark.

And I like the snark. I like that Wynonna says something big and dramatic with
sugar on her nose. I like it when Dolls and Wynonna snipe back and forth, her
taking everything as a big random joke and him being waaaaaaay too serious. We
shall have to see if this changes the tone. I don’t want it to but, at the same
time, it will be bad writing if it doesn’t.